The City Walls – Matt Olsen

My shift at claystation came as a welcome break from studio work and its long nights, which possibly had some influence in my slightly warped input to the table (a tower inherited from Nita, slowly twisted and formed into some cybernetic creature every 60 seconds as documented by the time lapse footage of the event). Seeing the creative energy from others at the table was definitely most interesting, a group with a range of occupations and backgrounds coming up with some very well crafted and elaborate designs- particularly of interest was a large stadium complex using some Corinthian/bed of leaves inspired solar shades designed by a couple event managers, cool stuff.. I think the system has great potential as a ‘brainstorming’ device for a range of fields – planning, architecture, visual/graphic design, basically anywhere where particular dominance of personality should not influence the pool of ideas brought to the table, the medium seeming to remove creative inhibitions quite effectively. I’ve decided to ‘tweak’ the photos from the event slightly to show one individual’s interpretation of some of the forms created.